[jtbaker]

I’m using it as my ingress controller on my K3S homelab and it has definitely been a nice DX so far.

The one thing I haven’t been able to figure out how to do with it is do compression (gzip/br/zstd) there, so I’m handling it in the application layer, which feels suboptimal.

Any tips? Seems like a table stakes sort of feature in the space that shouldn’t be too hard to implement.

[hardwaresofton]

Did the compress middleware not work for you?

https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/middlewares/http/compress/

Are you trying to compress the request that has already come in to your cluster? I'm not sure there's a ton of value to be extracted there, since the requests have already made their way across the internet uncompressed to your ingress point.

If there's a "long way" to go after hitting your ingress controller then maybe there's something to be gained...